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Staying local and true to its original intent is Ruralco’s primary focus for its future strategy.

Look back and plan ahead to get the most from your autumn sown cereal crops.

While many of us aren’t quite ready to say goodbye to summer, we do need to look ahead and start planning for winter. 

Ruralco’s Methven store came to fruition thanks to the confidence being experienced by the agricultural sector in the early 2000s. 

Jason and Clare Nish have successfully grown maize in Mid Canterbury over the past ten years. 

As the vibrant hues of summer fade into the cozy warmth of autumn, it's time to embrace the magic of fall gardening. From harvesting the last of your summer bounty to planting ready for cool-season crops like winter lettuce and spinach, autumn offers many opportunities to nurture your garden.

Unsightly piles of used tyres that occasionally make the news with spectacular and environmentally damaging fires may become a thing of the past once the Tyrewise stewardship programme gets into full swing

As the farming season draws towards a close, the ups and downs of a particularly tumultuous year have finally started to make themselves clearer as crops are sold, herds start to be dried off, and the last of the season’s lambs are sold.

Two new Directors have recently been welcomed to the Ruralco Board bringing a wealth of experiences and farming knowledge to the table.

Having teamed up with Southern Stations Wagyu, Michael Schat has moved away from the dairy industry to pursue new opportunities as part-owner and operator of the company’s first Canterbury-based state-of-the-art wagyu composting finishing barn at Aylesbury.